Day 29 – Psalm 26

We were suggested to incorporate several languages in our poem; but I’ve done that already in several posts. Instead, I’m translating Psalm 26, which is quite powerful in the original Hebrew, direct, and full of plays on words; in English translations, the directness and vitality are usually lost. The King James Version remains truest to the original–but the effect is lugubrious. I’ve tried to be as simple as possible. The original is ascribed to David, but the content of the text makes this unlikely.